Brexit chaos: How did Britain get here?
In our Perspective interview, we take a step back from the bickering in Brussels and Westminster over Brexit. We’re asking: How did Britain get here? What prompted 17 million Brits to vote to leave the EU in 2016? Was it a dislike of Eurocrats? Hostility towards immigrants? Poverty? Or even fantasies of an imperial past? To get a historical perspective, we speak to economist and historian Kevin O’Rourke.